Animal-releasing device.



E. NOENNIG.

ANIMAL RELEASING DEVICE. APPLlCATION FILED OCT. 31 m4 1 139 5630Patented May 18, 1915.

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E. NOENNIG.

ANIMAL RELEASING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED on. 31. 1914.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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E. NOENNIG. ANIMAL REILEASING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31. I914.

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E. NOENNIG.

ANIMAL RELEASING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED OCT. 31. 1914.

1 139 5636 Patented May 18, 1915.

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ERNST NOENNIG, (9F WITTENBERG, MISSOURI.

ANIMAL-EELEASING DEVICE.

Application filed Qctober 31, 1814.

To all axiom it may concern Be it known that I, Eans'r Nonnmo, a citizenof the United States, residing at Wittenberg, in the county of Perry andState of Missouri. have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAnimal- Releasing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in animal releasing devices andits object is to produce a device by means of which a number of horsesmay be simultaneously released from their stalls in a barn or stable intime of fire or other emergency.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to behereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed outin the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form apart of said specification and in which- Figure l is an end view of apart of a barn or stable with a part of the wall cut away to show theapplication of my invention. 2 is a section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.Fig. 3 1s a side elevation of the invention attached to the manger wallin the stable. Fin. d is a similar view showing the halter ropereleased. Fig. 5 is a sec- "ion taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 isview of the slide employed. Fig. 7 is a w of the guide employed. Fig. 8is a view taken on line 88 of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a section taken on line99 of Fi 7. Fi 10 is a section taken on line 1010 of Fig. 5. Fig. 11 isa side view of the cam wheel showing its operation. Fig. 12 is aperspective of the frame of the device.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The reference numeral 1 designates a barn or stable and 2 the mangerwall therewithin apertured at To the wall 2 the frame 3 is secured by abolt l projected into openings 2 and provided with a shock-absorbingspring 2 and said frame is formed with a pair of inclined legs 5 5supported by braces 6, 6 and connected by brace 7. An aperture 8 isformed in each of the legs 5 and through the same a rotary shaft 9 eX-tends which extends through all of the stalls in a line in the stableand through the legs of each frame in each stall. Upon the end of theshaft 9 outside the stable a crank 10 is secured by which said shaft maybe ro- Specification of etters Eatent.

Patented May 18, 1215.

Serial 1E0. 869,572.

tated and said crank is normally retained in inoperative position by akeeper 11 from engagement with which it may be manually removed whendesired. Upon the shaft 9 a guide beam 12 is loosely disposed and saidbeam is formed with tapered cleats 13, 14: which are spaced away fromeach other by a passageway 15 that serves as a guide way for a slide 16bifurcated at one end to form prongs 17, 18 the passageway 19 betweenwhich terminates in an enlarged opening 20. Referring again to the guidebeam 12 the same is provided with cleats 21, 21 that serve to retainslide 16 in position in its passageway. Upon the shaft 9 a cam wheel isdisposed in the path of the slide 16 and in contact therewith. A ratchet23 .de fast LO shaft 9 in proximity to cam wheel 22 is in engagementwith a pawl 24: carried by the guide beam 12 and a spring 25 secured toone leg 5 of the frame also engages the ratchet 23 to permit itsrotation in one direction with the shaft 9 but not in the oppositedirection. A spring 26 secured to the guide beam presses upon the pawl2a to retain the same in operative position. To the slide 16 a bracket27 is secured through which a screw 28 extends that is threaded into athreaded opening in the cleat 21 and between the head 29 of said screwand the bracket 27 a spring 80 is disposed about said screw abuttingsaid head and bracket the purpose of the spring 30 being to force theslide 16 down against the cam 22.

31 is an eye-bolt, which is formed with a head 32, and which extendsthrough an opening 33 in the guide beam 12 and through the passageway 19in the slide 16, the head 32 of said bolt being of greater diameter thathe passageway 19 but of smaller diameter than the opening 20 in saidslide. To the eye-bolt a cord 34 is secured which extends through anopening 35 in the frame 3 and to which the hitching ring 36 is securedthat carries the snap 37 that car ies the halter strap 38. The guidebeam 12 is connected by a spring 39 to the brace 7 and by said springretained in normal position which is the position shown in full lines inFig. 3.

Operation: lhe horse in tugging upon the strap 38 may possibly move theguide beam and connections into the position shown dotted in Fig. 3 butthis will not in any way affect the mechanism. To release one horse at atime the snap hook 37 may be removed from the ring 36 in the usualmanner; to release all of the animals at once the shaft 9 is turned bymeansof the crank 10 in a direction away from the frame 3. The pawl 24and spring 25 will ride over the ratchet 23 and permit rotation of thesame. The cam wheel 22 in rotating with the shaft 9 will raise the slide16 intothe position 7 shown in Fig. i bringing the opening in that slideinto alinement with the opening "33 in the guide beam and permittingwithdrawalf of the'eye-bolt 31 from the slide,

' beam and frame 3, thus freeing the animals.

What is claimed is:

- 1. In an animal releasing device, the combination of a support, alegged frame carried thereby, .a rotary shaft journaled in said legs, aguide beam loose upon said shaft, a flexible connection between saidguide beam and legs, a slide carried by said guide beam, a cam wheelfast upon said shaft in the plane of said slide, tension mechanismconnecting said guide beam and slide whereby the latter member isretained in 1 frictional engagement with said cam wheel,

an eye-bolt releasably carried by said slide and guide beam and meansassociated with said rotary shaft for rotating the same to cause the camwheel carried thereby to move said slide out of normal by release saideye-bolt. V

2. In an animal releasing device, the combination of a support, a leggedframe carried thereby, a rotary shaft journaled in said legs, aterminally apertured guide beam 7 loose upon said shaft, a flexibleconnection between said guidebeam and legs, a terminally bifurcatedslide carried by said guide Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the V Washington, D. 0.

position and therebeam, said bifurcation being larger at its inceptionthan at its termination; a cam wheel fast upon said shaft in the planeof said slide, tension mechanism connecting said guide beam and slidewhereby the latter member is retained infrictional engage; 'ment Wltl'l'said cam wheel, an 'eye-bolt pro-- shaft, a flexible connection betweensaid guide beam and legs, a slide carried bys'aid guide beam, tensionmechanism connecting said guide beam and slide whereby the latter memberis impelled toward said shaft,

an eyebolt releasably carried by said guide beam and slide while thelatter member'is in normal position, means for rotating said shaft andmeans carried by said shaft for frictional engagement with said slidewhereby the same is moved-out of normal position to effect the releaseof said eye-bolt.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixedmysignature in the presence of two subscriblng witnesses.

V ERNST NOENNIG.

VVitnesssi I Man'rm NOENNIG, PAULINE NOENNIG.

Commissioner of Patents,

